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100
This character is known for his book smarts.
Who is Ponyboy?
100
This is the first situation where Ponyboy proves that he does not have street smarts.
What is walking home from the movies alone?
100
This represents the wealth and emptiness of the Socs.
What are blue mustangs and madras?
100
These two sides have been battling for years an no one really seems to know why.
Who are the Socs and Greasers?
100
Feeling casual and relaxed.
What is nonchalant?
200
This character was jumped by the Socs in a flashback. He also has a bad relationship with his parents.
Who is Johnny?
200
Johnny and Ponyboy's reason for running away.
What is Bob's murder?
200
This represents how the Greasers.
What is long greasy hair?
200
This is what Dallas had in his hand at the end of the novel, which the police shot him for.
What is an unloaded gun?
200
To be distant and not involved in the action.
What is aloof?
300
This character sees both sides of the Soc and Greaser fight, and wishes they would all find a way to get along.
Who is Cherry Valance?
300
This is the place that Dallas tells Ponyboy and Johnny to go to after the fight with the Socs.
What is an abandoned church?
300
Ponyboy and Cherry both like this and it demonstrates that the Socs and Greasers are really not that different.
What are sunsets and sunrises?
300
We see this type of irony when Ponyboy and Johnny, who are thought to be criminals, become heroes in the end of the novel.
What is situational irony?
300
A person incapable of serious, connected thought.
What is scatterbrain?
400
This character is the toughest and meanest of the gang. He also sacrificed his life due to Johnny's death.
Who is Dallas Winston?
400
This is the heroic thing that Ponyboy and Johnny do in the novel.
What is risk their lives to save children from the burning church?
400
This is a novel that Johnny reads because he sees the connection of the Civil War to the battles between the Socs and Greasers.
What is Gone With The Wind?
400
This is where Ponyboy and Johnny redeem themselves and become heroes.
What is the abandoned church?
400
A bold resistance to authority.
What is defiance?
500
This character had to grow up too fast when his parents died and he was forced to raise his younger brothers.
Who is Darry Curtis?
500
These are Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.
What is Stay gold?
500
This is the name of the horse who represented Sodapop's personality.
What is Micky Mouse?
500
This is what Bob always needed from his parents.
What is someone to tell him no? or (discipline)
500
An institution to which youthful offenders are sent .
What is a reformatory?